Articles filed under Health
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Hoarding is different from obsessive disordersMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Are hoarders simply extremely messy people who have no regard for their personal environments? That's not the case, health professionals say. Hoarders, in the simplest s...
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Illinois health registry seeks more women participantsMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - More Illinois women are needed to stand by for possible participation in health research. That's the word from officials overseeing the Illinois Women's Health Registry....
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Women tell how they grew into their new selves after brain injuryMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Bobbie Larsen's life changed three years ago when she fell 8 feet onto a concrete floor, fracturing her skull on the left side. "I went to the emergency room, and they s...
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Pregnancy safe for breast cancer survivorsMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Women who survive breast cancer and have children afterwards don't appear to be at any higher risk of dying from cancer, a new study says. Doctors have long worried preg...
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Working it: Exercises that give our contestants the best resultsMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - You know the workout routine. There are exercises you hate, but others are exhilarating. There are those that immediately make you feel stronger and others that seeming...
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Hoarding: When clutter becomes a crisisMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - How many times have you heard the following sentence? "I'm such a pack rat I can't throw anything away." Maybe you've heard a friend say, "Why do I hoard all of this stu...
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Are bad veins the key to MS? Doctors test new theoryMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Under intense pressure from patients, some U.S. doctors are cautiously testing a provocative theory that abnormal blood drainage from the brain may play a role in multip...
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'Empowering patients' theme of Aurora African-American health fairMar 27, 2010 11:00 pm - The health of the African-American community - from babies to senior citizens - was on the minds of exhibitors at the fifth annual Aurora African-American Health Fair Sa...
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Experts: One-third of breast cancer is avoidableMar 24, 2010 11:00 pm - BARCELONA, Spain -- Up to a third of breast cancer cases in Western countries could be avoided if women ate less and exercised more, researchers at a breast cancer confe...
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Defibrillator may disrupt quiet hospice deathMar 21, 2010 11:00 pm - If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it turned off? Carol Filak had heard about painfu...